Luke DR

My Works

These are a few of my productions, which - not to blow my own horn - everyone has loved so far.

I want more people to share the experience and get the same enjoyment and pleasure out of my work. That's what we do as artists, we entertain by spreading our profound messages and feelings, to make you feel and think. Failing to do so guarantees your works' mortality. And no one wants their works to die, do they? "Exegi monumentum aere perennius / regalique situ pyramidum altius", wrote the everlasting Horace who is still around like the majestic burial places of Cheops and company...

 

The Roving 'I'

This short story collection is only available via download. I chose this environmentally friendly method on the back of feedback from you the public, as in fact most people bought my first book 'Dude' via download. Everyone is reading more and more on their laptops, iPhones, iPads, Kindles, all sorts of virtual media, so this is for you! If you really want a paper version, print it off secretly at work - but please don't get caught...

Dude, Where's My Career?

First published in 2007, Dude, Where’s My Career? is the thinking person’s analysis of the concept of a modern career. Whether you're the lucky owner of a career or you've temporarily misplaced yours, this book is for you! The augmented and expanded second edition packs in no fewer than 75 reasons why you should wake up and smell the overpriced coffee, in the fields of Education, Employment, Lifestyles and Money Management. It's a real must-read for all young people struggling with those difficult questions.

Soul Trader

Called "outstandingly original and hilarious", this comic play examines how going for a job these days can drop you into a real corporate hell... You'll have a devil of a time!

The Escape Artists

A three-person play about corporate despair and creative hope, as our protagonists plot their escape from the daily grind of a soul-destroying 'nine to five' existence. With a special artistic twist as the finale, as one act of creation is performed within another that makes every performance unique...

If 2000

Inspired by Rudyard Kipling's classic poem, this work composed in a few short hours ironically turns the original's high-mindedness completely on its head to reflect what it really takes to succeed in the world.

A Modern Satire On The Relations Between The Sexes

This poem in free-flowing heroic couplets explores the narrator's learned and candid opinions on the interaction between men and women, exploring historical trends, psychology, notions of equality and the best attributes of both sides as he arbitrates an argument. Building up to a glorious climax praising the superiority of women (of course), it has been described as 'beautifully written', 'staggeringly biased', 'ridiculous' and 'wholly, fantastically absurd' by admiring readers.

The Lawbotomised Lady (Or Xenophoney's Annabasis)

This humorous poem in heroic couplets recounts the adventure of an intelligent young woman thinking about becoming a lawyer. Divided into three short Cantos with an abrupt ending that has confused literary critics and given rise to several contradictory explanations, both plausible and ridiculous.